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B. R. GAE-DONE. Over Draw Check Rein Attachment. No. 242,506. PatentedJune 7,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFEicE,

EDWIN R. GAHOONE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

OVERDRAW CHECK-REIN ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,506, dated June '7,1881,

Application filed April 11, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN It. OAHooNE, ofNewark, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented a new andImproved Overdraw Attachment for Check-Reins and I do hereby declare thesame to be described in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings, of which Figure 1 is a view of the combined attachment withthe buckle and loop part for the winker-stay, showing its operation, thestrap being split and inserted in its places without having ends to passthrough its two parts, being put in by simply bending each of them rightand left. Fig. 2 is a view of the attach ment separate from thewinker-stay buckle and loop, to be used when the winker-stay buckle isput on in the ordinary way. Fig. 3 is a side view of Fig. a. Fig. 4 is alongitudinal section of the buckle-tongue and part of the loop for thewinker-stay, the section being on a line, 2 z, of Fig. 1.

My invention relates to an overdraw attachment that will enable a personto put in place the leather portions without having to buckle andunbuckle the straps, and can be used with the wiuker-stay buckle andloop, or can be used separate, as represented in the drawings.

A is the winker-stay.

B is the check-rein, split as representelil in Fig. 1.

O is the loop and buckle-piece to take the end of the winker-stay.

D is the chcck-rein-attaching device, preferably connected in one pieceby bars a c with the loop and buckle O.

E is the crown-piece, broken olf at each end.

a are the holes in the bars a a, to receive the nails or rivets tofasten the combined checkrein attachment D and winker-stay buckle andloop-piece O to the crown piece E.

l) is the buckle. c is the tongue. (Z is a depression in the buckle toreceive the tongue, deep enough to be even, or nearly so, with thesurface of the buckle.

c are projections on the attachment, put on in such manner as to answerthe purpose as one continuous bar and allow the straps to be taken inand out without buckling and unbuckling.

fare holes in the single overdraw-piece, for the purpose of riveting orfastening to the crown-piece. 1

The device D differs from any rein-attaching device to me known, inhaving the walls 6 e of the same height as and directly opposite theprojections c c, and extending the whole length of the device, so as toreceive wholly within itself the rein.

The main object of my invention as above described is to obtain anattachment that can be used with the buckle-piece O or can be usedseparate, as in Fig. 2, being cheap and easily fastened to thecrown-piece, and without the objectionable features that others possess,being ornamental as well as useful.

The depression 0 for the end of the buckletongue b, being made deepenough to receive the end of said tongue, so as to be flush with thesurface of the buckle, becomes, in effect, a toe cap, preventing theforelock-hairs catching into it, as is commonly the case with buckleswhere they are exposed to the swing of the maue'or tail.

Splitting the leather, as in Fig. 1, obviates the necessity of havingends, as is the case now.

Havingdescri bed my invention, what Iclaim, therefore, is-

1. In an overdraw check-rein attachment, the device D, constructed withprojections e and wall-elevations c opposite projections c,substantially as shown, to receive and hold the Tell].

2. A check-rein attachment, D, combined with the winker-stay buckle andloop-piece O by a connectingpieee, having holes a for riveting to thecrown piece E, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the split cheek-rein B with the check-reinattachment D and cro wnpiece E, all for the purpose specified.

4. The combination of the split check-rein B with the check-reinattachment D and the check-strap buckle and loop 0, all for the purposespecified.

EDWIN R. OAHOONE.

Witnesses:

ABRAHAM MANNERS, EDWARD G. ROBERTSON.

